,66 ON AND OFF THE A VE.NUE. :-..:.:' :::::::. , , ( , , ' t , ? ,.:: , $t ' : ".l ......?:/.,:-{:::: .:::.., :-: " '/ " "::':'::;;':':: ,',.',',' ., ! , t,}. : \. '::: ",:,,' :; ;;:: .,:,:r t:{tf!: '! .. . ' ø.,,; ::, ,,,,,,;->:,, ',: , ; ." , ' '\i; t::. ', "::;\: ABOUT THE HOUSE, they'll resurface marred table tops and redecorate painted wood furniture. This place is a haven, too, for worn-out elec- trical appliances-fans, toasters, grills, juicers, vacuum cleaners, anything. There's only one string attached; if the maker of a part which has to be re- placed is out of business, the deal is off. Repairs, Inc., at 32 East Fifty-sev- enth Street, can do repairs on electrical appliances if the work doesn't involve tinkering with the motor; for instance, fixing up a fan which has a broken hlade. Repairs will also take on leather repairs of all kinds, make old clocks run again, do a beautiful job on damaged linens and laces, and restore old papier- mâché and tôle trays. These people won't touch any more china and porce- lain right now, because the moving sea- son has brought on such a rush, but they will repair glassware-j obs like fixing snapped-off pedestals of valuable crystal stemware, which come back to you wearing delicate silve); collars to rein- force the mend. One of the things Re- pairs is best known for is the rebuilding of maltreated silver, even seemingly hopeless cases, such as serving dishes which have been slipped into the oven to warm up (ladies will do this, it f I. It:.:; í /1;{ti 4 . ;: '::::,-- O NE thing they won't be able to do any more after this war is to throw in our faces the housewifely thrift of our good and, I hasten to add, respected grandmothers. These earlier American ladies may have been, and probably were, the most dili- gent conservationists ever (after all, you can't refute the testimony of the family heirlooms which are the boast of Ameri- can homes of today), but a good an- swer to any reproaches is: Who wouldn't save, mend, repair, and remake if she knew that her cherished household com- forts, once worn out, could be replaced only with the greatest difficulty, if at all? Now that the necessity of making things last is upon us, we'll probably end up by beating Grandmother at her own game. The toV\rn's big shops have organized to help us with our conservation prob- lems, such as putting run-down uphol- stered furniture back on its feet. As any- one knows who has tried out the new springless seats being shown in the stores, anything you own which has springs in it is worth having remade at any price. Macy's Reupholstery Clinic ( seventh floor) does an excellent job of re building upholstered pieces of any sort-com- pletely, if necessary. It will also send around a diagnostician to examine, recommend, and estimate. McCreery, too, has an up- holstery repair shop. Its specialty is restyling, which doesn't stop short of even changing a sofa's silhouette if you're tired of its orig- inal shape. Altman's Save-It Ser- vice is wonderful at all the tiny jobs you'd ordinarily hesitate to bother a big store about. Replacing ab- sent, shaky, or burned wood handles on your now priceless metal pots and pans is one of them; put- ting missing knobs back on kitchen canister covers is another. They'll repair and refinish fireplace tools or comb the market to re- place missing parts of sets; , ;] , < , ^ t;:';; : ;>Á :'" ': .'.. .::: . }*:. i: \h" .: -:.,:;::. \ :,.s :=1;;. \::; :: : ì r:::"", , : '.. " rii ,.., -"':, .:: ':"M : :: :.::.$ ::-..:... ::": i r1! \*ii ,:::'<:: : ::' :'-::: A seen1S), and I'll lay a bet that one of the things the place will soon be known for is the relining- of thermos bottles and ice "- buckets. "rhat alone should be enough to keep Repairs in business for the duration. \Vomen who were thrifty house- wives long before they had to be know all about the Service Desk of the New York Exchange for \Voman's Work, at 541 Madison Avenue (54th). Ex- change needlewomen are magnificent at doing the most delicate mending and reweaving of household linens and laces. They will finish and mount the needlepoint job you abandoned midway, recover sofa pillows, and recut and refit curtains, draperies, and bedspreads to meet ne",- needs. They can even take a crocheted spread for a double bed and make a pair of covers for twin beds out of it; whatever crochet has to be added will exactly duplicate the original. Quilt covers are an old story to them, too. The quilting has to be machine-done if the filling is down, but you can have al1 the fancy handwork you like on a lamb's-wool quilt. Right now the Ex- change is proudest of the job it is doing with irreplaceable old metal laundry hampers and scrap baskets. These can he scraped down, repainted, and dec- ,.-. - - ,:',::"""':'..:,. .." ....' ".:' "' " ,:" ' '.:-. '::: ........ :::: :::'- : "'" { f',k .} '.,:'>>; "",."I @Þ.;, ! .... .., ......'. ::::. :: : .::::': .' "' '>".. H;:',:: þ;",. f-; } . .:-:.... ' "':"":: . . .' :. :::,: ; ::if>:" ; ...... :\.,,:/ ; . ,1:', ((Now let n e show you one of A^liss Daché's n ore mischievous i11 pulses'" ....